I'll Tape It / Cause I Know You Won't

(National Geographic April 1973; vintage ads)

Ahem ahem: "You want a tape deck that lasts? We'll give you a tape deck that lasts. And lasts. ... Whatever weird instrument your great-grandson will be playing, the Sony TC-377 will capture it."

Weird instruments are the best, guys.

(via boingboing)

Tapes N' Tapes

Tapedeck.org is a website devoted to cataloging the (sometimes very strange) designs of analog audio tape cassettes 1960-90.
Who would have thought that this could be as interesting as it is (really)?

(via everyoneforever)